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With rare unanimity, however, economists warn that the upturn, whenever it comes, will be painfully slow and gradual. Robert Ortner, chief economist of the U.S. Department of Commerce, ; observes that after past recessions the total output of goods and services on average has jumped 7% in the first year of recovery. "This time it will be less than that," he says. That is putting the case very mildly; many private economists guess that the upswing will be only half as vigorous as it traditionally is. Walter Heller, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, has compiled a self...
...foreign occupiers removed from Lebanon, seemed no closer. Syrians, Palestinians and Israelis now find their interests so en tangled in the country's political quagmire that some parties to the negotiations despair of finding a solution. The best out come, says a Western diplomat, might be a gradual dissipation of the situation, with no grand settlement that would define winners and losers. If the P.L.O. slowly pulled out of Beirut with little or no fan fare, he says, perhaps Israel and even Syria would ultimately find reasons to bring their troops home...
Ivan's problems with Gloria have an effect on his professional life as well. Obsessed with trying to get her back, he finds himself unable to finish his latest play, in spite of his director's demands for revision. It is this aspect of the plot--Ivan's gradual realization that Gloria is more of a disruptive than a stabilizing influence in his life--that sustains the movie. Ultimately, Author! Author! is not a typical "family film." As much as it extolls family life, its final message is on, of praise for individuality and self-assurance. Ivan learns to share...
...this interventionist approach to childbirth that enrages Harrison above all else. What she saw at her hospital bears no resemblance to the gradual, intimate, rhythmic process she found so moving during home births. "Childbirth is a surgical procedure," she is told in training. Though Harrison believes that each deli very has its own "natural pace," births at the hospital are expected to follow the contours of an idealized graph of how labor is supposed to progress. When a woman departs from the curve, doctors turn to preordained procedures. They may speed things up by administering Pitocin, a labor-inducing drug...
...other ending that Britain now has in mind is a gradual invasion. As one senior British diplomat told TIME Correspondent Frank Melville, "The strategy is not a simple choice between war and peace. What the government intends is a stage-by-stage repossession, with partial landings on the West and then the East island, but with the door being left open for continuing diplomatic efforts. This means pushing the Argentines to the conference table on a realistic basis by exerting greater and greater military pressure until their nerve fails them...